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orations, I should want that honor conferred npon TuU's 'Horse 

 Ilofirif* Iluaiiandni-.' It niarkid the beginning of the modern 

 iipplication of seientifiu methods to agriculture, and promul{j:ated 

 a system of truutment of the land which, in its essential princi- 

 l>le9, is now accepted by every good farmer, and the appreciation 

 of which must increase to the end of time." — Bailnj, Bull, ll'.i, 

 innutl Exp. Sta. Tull dird in 1740. 



57<i. "The actual contour of the water-tnblo in an un<ler- 

 drained field, where the lines of tile are placed at distances of 

 33 feet and 4 feet below the surface of the ground, is shown in 

 Ft:'. K. w'liili !.'!%•»>•< the contours ns they existed forty-<iirlit hi>m»i 



t!.o n •• .il T' ■ •..■ r of tl.O w:i;iTt:iI.;o ill a t il. -ilr.-iiiM i| tli'M 



aittr a r:i;iila!i ot ..^7 inches. In this case the hei^jlit of the 

 water midway between the lines of tile varied from 4 inches to 

 \'l inches above the tops of the tile." — Kind, The Soil, p. £5'J. 



88a. Read Roberts' "Fertility of the Land," pp. 30:j WVl, on 

 the physical efTicts cf liming land ; also "The Soil," p. 30, and 

 Whoelcr's "Liming of Soils," Farmers' Bulletin No. 77, U. S. 

 I>ept. Agric. The effects of lime in flocculating or mellowing 

 ••lay may be observed by working up a ball of stift clay with 

 ■■ommon water and a similar ball with lime water ; the former 

 will become bard on drying, but the latti-r will readily fall to 

 pieces. Lime water may bo made by shaking up a lump of lime 

 in n bottle of water. 



CO't. One of the most forcible illustrntions of the value of 

 fine textnre of noil is afTorded by the result which the floriMi 



